An investigation is underway after a locum doctor accidentally cut into the head of a baby they were delivering via Caesarean section, in Scotland.
According to the Mirror, mum Emma Edwards has been left traumatised by her birthing experience and the shocking blunder made during baby Karmen’s delivery.
Thankfully, Karmen is OK after the incident, but she has been left with a one-and-a-half-inch scar between her left eye and her ear.
Emma, 21, described her experience at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, as ‘disastrous from the start to the end’.
Scheduled to give birth there in June, the 21-year-old saw her planned C-section cancelled twice. She was eventually told to go home but ended up back in hospital hours later, after her waters broke.
It was after the birth that details of the locum’s shocking mistake were relayed back to Emma, while Karmen was receiving treatment in the special baby care unit.
“The surgeon came and spoke to me afterwards and said that it happened because I hadn’t told anyone that my waters had broken and was in labour, but I checked my medical records and it said that I had explained that,” she said.
To add insult to injury, it took an entire day for Karmen to be stitched up properly, as a plastic surgeon had to be drafted in from neighbouring Aberdeen.
With an investigation now underway, we’ll keep you posted on what happens next.
